working-class

  • (s) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
    • "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
    propertyless, blue-collar, wage-earning,
  • (s) working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
    • working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor
    wage-earning,

Nouns

  • (n) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
    • there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
    labor, labour, proletariat,

Synonyms

labor labour proletariat propertyless blue-collar wage-earning

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